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2009-07-02 11:57 AM

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Every time you hear about something like this it's always the "live in boyfriend" involved somehow...

So sad.. and preventable...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529835,00.html

2009-07-02 12:00 PM
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Yet another `why the eff do you keep a wild animal in your house?' The report said they can grow up to 26 feet in length??? What would make one think they could cage something like that?
2009-07-02 12:24 PM
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Heard aabout this on the local morning news. Stupid should be painful but not to an innocent child. Hopefully theu throw the book and the kitchen sink at both of them.
2009-07-02 5:29 PM
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I have to wonder about the judgment of people who think mixing large reptiles with small children in the home is ever somehow a good idea.  What's really disturbing to me is that the snake had escaped earlier in the day and the adults must have known it was loose. 

2009-07-02 6:46 PM
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Some people are just unfit for society, imagine the suffering that child went through! The boyfriend knew better and the mother should have. He deserves Homocide,she deserves manslaughter.
2009-07-02 6:54 PM
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These folks were obviously negligent and irresponsible.  A Burmese, however, can be kept as a pet with the proper equipment (not an aquarium) and training.

2009-07-02 7:20 PM
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Whether or not a python can be kept as a pet with the proper equipment is not the point.  A pit bull can be a pet, but they still kill people.  Same with chimps.  It is just stupid to subject your family to these things since you don't HAVE to own them.  A snake larger than a person belongs in a zoo.  I chose to buy a dog that is smaller than a small child because I knew I would have a child some day.  I put gates at the bottom and top of the stairs for my baby because I don't want him to fall down the stairs. 
2009-07-02 8:03 PM
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crazyyella - 2009-07-02 8:20 PM Whether or not a python can be kept as a pet with the proper equipment is not the point.  A pit bull can be a pet, but they still kill people.  Same with chimps.  It is just stupid to subject your family to these things since you don't HAVE to own them.  A snake larger than a person belongs in a zoo.  I chose to buy a dog that is smaller than a small child because I knew I would have a child some day.  I put gates at the bottom and top of the stairs for my baby because I don't want him to fall down the stairs. 


But I think that is part of the point.  I have a dog that is right now twice as big as my 3 children so that doesn't make it unbearably dangerous.  Nobody HAS to own any kind of pet, in that line of argument every animal is wild and therefore unfit in any house with children.  I see the gates on the stairs as equivalent to proper housing for a Burmese which is most definitely not an aquarium.

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2009-07-02 9:20 PM
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Holy Crap, if I ever saw a snake that big that wasn't behind a cage I would set a new PR run myself, let alone leave my child around it.  Why do people keep stuff like that I'll never know.

When I was staying in FL with a friend, we'd go for a run in the evening and a guy would be walking his TWO HYENA's. (sp?) They were muzzled but still... it freaked me out enough to cross the road when I saw him the next few times.
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